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Growing Up Late
Growing Up Late explores the gap between the impressive lives we build on the outside and who we actually are on the inside. Through honest conversations about betrayal, comebacks, and personal transformation, host Jeannie McIntire shows how the real growth happens when we finally own our role in our own story. A podcast for anyone ready to stop playing small and start living authentically.
Episodes
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You’re Not Broken, You Adapted: Healing Childhood Trauma at Any Age with Barb Varcl Smith
What if the strength everyone admires in you is really a survival pattern? Barb Varcl Smith is a trauma recovery educator, therapist, and speaker who grew up…
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You Cannot Heal in Constant Performance: Why High Achievers Need Permission to Rest and Want More
What if you checked in with yourself before something broke? In this solo episode of Growing Up Late, Jeannie McIntire takes her own advice. With freshly…
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You Are the Value: Finding Yourself in the Empty Nest
Empty nest identity and the dream sheet, with Kelly Salmons “You are the value.” Kelly Salmons says it plainly: when the kids leave and the daily needing…
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Being Chosen Is Overrated: Flattery, Boundaries, and Choosing Yourself First
Being picked feels like proof you’re worth something. It isn’t. A story about flattery, people-pleasing, and what happens when you say no to an offer you were…
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Burnout Recovery & People-Pleasing with Morrighan Lynne
Burnout recovery, people-pleasing, and the mother wound: Morrighan Lynne, trauma-informed coach and author of The Spirited Human, shares how burnout came in to…
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I Wasn't Out of Time, I Was Out of Order: The Fallacy of Rushing
I fell down an entire flight of stairs rushing to impress my mentor. Cut up, adrenaline through the roof, and I still walked in late and unable to focus…
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Reclaiming Your Choices: Self-Worth, Trust & Love with Jennifer Benson
What happens when the story you tell about yourself changes, and the world starts responding differently? In this episode of Growing Up Late, transformational…
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Why Aren't You Living Your Dream Life Yet? A Birthday, a DNA Test, and What I Found
Almost exactly a year ago, a DNA test I almost didn't take turned up a brother I never knew I had. On the eve of my birthday, I'm telling the story and the…
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It's Never Too Late to Heal: Denise Willis on Boundaries, Self-Worth & Starting Over
Denise Willis was married six times before she learned how to set a boundary. In this episode of Growing Up Late, the life coach, author, and breast cancer…
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Take Me Off the Mortgage! The Audacity of One More Ask
My marriage was over. My finances were devastated. My ex was building a new life with someone else. Then he left me a voicemail: "Can you take me off the…
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When Being Needed Becomes Self-Abandonment | Alyssa Utecht
There’s a difference between being generous and abandoning yourself. But when you’ve spent years being the helpful one, the dependable one, the woman everyone…
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Your Life Has Drafts | Reinvention, Identity & Starting Over
A lot can change in a year. A lot can change in a life. Jeannie McIntire lost her father at five years old. A year later, she watched a man walk on the moon…
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Life After the Unthinkable: When the Life You Planned Is No Longer Possible
What happens when the life you planned disappears, and grief leaves you responsible for decisions you never expected to make alone? Catherine “Cathy” Bass had…
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Divorce Is an Opportunity: Trust, Growth, and Co-Parenting with Marisa Belger
Episode Summary What if divorce wasn’t just something to survive, but an opportunity to grow? Divorce is often described as one of life’s most painful…
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The Watcher: The Voice in Your Head Isn't Always You
What if the voice in your head isn't actually you? Most of us assume the voice narrating our lives is who we are. We replay old conversations, believe…
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The Divorce Your Children Will Thank You For | Child-Centered Divorce with Rosalind Sedacca
Divorce changes a family—but it doesn't have to define a child's future. In this episode of Growing Up Late, Jeannie McIntire sits down with internationally…
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Say What You Need to Say
The difference between sacred silence and self-abandonment. How many times have you rehearsed something in your head—not because you did not know what you…
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Between Identities: When the Life You Built No Longer Fits
What happens when the life you built no longer fits, but you do not yet know who you are becoming? In this episode of Growing Up Late, Jeannie McIntire talks…
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Life: Sign Up Now | You Cannot Steer a Parked Car
What if life is not waiting for you somewhere in the future? Not after you lose the weight, get the job, heal from the hard thing, feel ready, become…
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What’s in Your Garage?
What’s sitting in your garage? For me, it was a chainsaw. In this episode of Growing Up Late, I share the unlikely story of a chainsaw that sat unused in my…
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My Mother Invented the Plastic Kite
Episode 10: My Mother Invented the Plastic Kite My mother used to say, "I'm not an inventor." Which was interesting, because I'm pretty sure she invented the…
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This is My Teacher What is My Lesson
This Is My Teacher. What Is My Lesson? What if the most important lessons in our lives come from the people and experiences we would never have chosen? In this…
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Your Life is Already Telling the Truth
Your Life is Already Telling the Truth Episode 8 of Growing Up Late explores awareness, avoidance, and the uncomfortable process of waking up to our own lives…
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The Human Agorithm
The Human Algorithm Emotion makes memory stick. In this deeply reflective episode, Jeannie explores the “human algorithm”, the way our minds feed us more of…
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What Survived the Collapse?
What Survived the Collapse? What happens after everything falls apart? In this deeply personal episode of Growing Up Late, Jeannie reflects on the collapse of…
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The Humbling | Starting Over After Losing Everything
The Humbling In this episode of Growing Up Late, Jeannie shares what happened after the house was sold and the life she knew was gone. Sitting alone in a…
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No Version Left to Believe
No Version Left to Believe: When the story stops working Episode Description There comes a moment when the story you’ve been telling yourself stops working…
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No One Is Coming to Save You, Good. Now You’re Free.
Episode Summary For years, I believed I had married a white knight. The truth? I didn't marry one, I created one. In this episode, I share the moment I began…
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The Things I Gave Up to Be Loved
Episode Description Oh, the things I gave up to be loved. In this episode of Growing Up Late, I share the quieter side of my story, the parts that didn’t feel…
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I Trusted Him With Everything, and He Took It All.
Episode Title I Trusted Him With Everything, and He Took It All. Episode Description I trusted him with everything, and he took it all. In this first episode…
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Welcome to Growing Up Late!
In this episode, Jeannie introduces Growing Up Late and explores the gap between the impressive lives we build on the outside and who we actually are on the…